Paul Doherty Email & Phone Number

United States

Lifestyle/Golf apparel

Greater Seattle Area

•Manage and lead a multi-channel buying team of 40 team members for Men’s Furnishings & Clothing for all stores US/Canada and online consisting of buyers, buy planners, assistant buyers, assistant buy planners, replenishment buyers, associate buyers, and ecommerce merchandisers. •Classifications consist of suits, sports coats, dress shirts, ties, accessories, underwear, socks, tech media and watches.•Launched new pricing vendor strategy with Ultra Lux vendors multi channel. Ultra Lux vendors consisted of Brunello Cucenelli, Ermenigildo Zegna, Isaia, Giorgio Armani.•Launched Modern Lux brands led by Eleventy that drove $20m+ within 1 year.•Launched a brand new category in Tech media. Grew the business to 18 million in 2 years.•Launched Nordstroms first NY Manhattan Flagship store that quickly became the #1 volume store.•Launched a collaboration with Suit Supply with in store shops for this brand.

Seattle, Wa

•Manage and lead a multi-channel buying team of 32 team members for Men’s Furnishings for all stores US/Canada and online consisting of buyer, buy planner, assistant buyers, assistant buy planner, replenishment buyer, associate buyer, and ecommerce merchandiser. •Through successful leadership, strategic development and employee development has resulted in year over year increases that generated over $400 million in sales volume in 2015.•Collaborated with our private label team to identify product opportunities that generated $100 million in volume under 4 private label brands.•Successfully developed strong vendor relationships resulting in the acquisition of multiple brands that include the owners and CEO’s of Canali, Peter Millar, David Donahue, Hugo Boss, Ted Baker, Fitbit and Bose to name a few.•Enhanced team's understanding of specific new store demographics to support developing plans for product assortment and to continually drive sales.•Leads teams through organizational change to continue company growth by creating and communicating a clear vision and path to successful implementation of new processes and tools.•Expanded Men’s Active business from $3 million to $20 million through 3 major foundation brands: Nike, Under Armour and Adidas.•Sustained the highest rate of direct report promotions through effective leadership ability to engage employees to support the Nordstrom mission by living the brand, further increasing retention - providing cost savings by further reducing the number of recruitment and training of new employees.

Seattle, Wa

•Managed a multi-channel team of 35 team members responsible for the Men’s Sportswear classifications, for all Full Line Store (FLS) and Direct.•Led a team that successfully delivered year over year sales increases in FLS and Direct that reached over $400 million in volume.•Collaborated with our private label team to identify product opportunities that generated $85 million in sales under 4 private label brands.•Enhanced teams understanding of specific new store demographics to support developing plans for product assortment.•Successfully led team through Nordstrom’s historic transformational change in merchandising moving from a regional buying team model to a national buying team model.

Mclean, Va

•Managed FLS buying team for all of Men’s division, East Coast region.•Led a team of 20 team members that bought all men's classifications for the East Coast region (24 stores). Classifications consisted of young men's, sportswear, active, furnishings, accessories and suits.•Enhanced teams understanding of specific new store demographics to support developing plans for product assortment.

Mclean, Va

Buyer for Men’s Sportswear, East Coast region.

San Diego/Virginia

Men's Sportswear.